While giving a fiery speech against Abraham Lincoln, Fernando Wood calls him "King Abrahamus Africanus The First." This was the title of an 1864 pamphlet, which was illustrated with a drawing of Lincoln wearing a crown and subtitled "his secret life, as revealed under the mesmeric influence; mysteries of the White House." This pamphlet was printed by the "Copperheads," a group of Northern Pro-Confederate Democrats to which Wood belonged. It claimed that Lincoln had signed a contract with Satan to enable him to seize the US presidency for life and to "subvert the liberties of the American people and debauch their civic aspirations; to impose upon them in every imaginable form of low cunning, and cheat them with words of double meaning and with false promises, until by these, and kindred means, that end is accomplished, and his dynasty firmly established."

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